European Report

Updated Jan. 20, 1999 12:01 a.m. ET

PROTESTING ROMANIAN miners march toward capital, clash with troops.

Some 10,000 coal miners marching to the capital to protest low wages and possible layoffs clash with police, leaving 15 people in need of hospital treatment. Special police spray tear gas and throw smoke bombs several times to try and stop miners advancing southward from the Jiu Valley toward the capital, Bucharest. Miners clamber over crude roadblocks set up by police troops, and using buses and their feet arrive in the city of Targu Jiu, some 240...